After acting primarily on television throughout the 1980s, her film credits began stacking up in subsequent decades. She had a role in the 1998 film Judas Kiss, as did Richard Riehle and William Lucking. In 2000, she co-starred with DS9's Wallace Shawn in the film The Prime Gig (also featuring Star Trek: Enterprise guest actor Pat Healy). And in 2003 both she and W. Morgan Sheppard had roles in the little-known film Florida City. Arnette's other motion picture credits include Ladybugs (1992, with Nancy Parsons and Jandi Swanson), Boys Don't Cry (1999), and The Shipping News (2001).